News

Developments in gene-editing technology raise new ethical questions

By [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], KCBS Radio | 11.19.2025

This is Ask An Expert, where every weekday at 9:20am, KCBS Radio is giving you direct access to top experts in various fields. Today: Gene-editing technology allows scientists to work with DNA in unprecedented ways, but there are larger scientific...

U.S. Federal

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.

By Emily Glazer, Katherine Long, Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 11.08.2025

For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.

Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the startup—called...

Genetic Selection

Who Gets to Procreate and Parent? A Black Feminist Critique of the Pronatalist Agenda

By Jallicia A. Jolly, Sydney Curtis and Nicole Sessions, Ms. Magazine | 10.17.2025

Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...

U.S. Federal

Does One Size Fit All?

By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

Society

FDA approves genetic test that screens infants for predictors of mental disabilities

By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press | 01.17.2014

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration on Friday cleared a first-of-a-kind blood test that can help diagnose mental disabilities...

Genomics

The UK's Deplorable Witch Hunt Against Asian Women

By Marge Berer, RH Reality Check | 01.16.2014
If you are concerned about gender discrimination – that is, discrimination against girls and women – what would you do...
Genetic Selection

Could Glow-in-the-Dark Tobacco Plants Light Up the Living Rooms of the Future?

By Kristin Hohenadel, Slate | 01.15.2014

Glowing plants - as seen in the seemingly fantastical flora of the 2009 film Avatar - are no longer just...

Genomics

Illegal abortion of female foetuses by some ethnic groups who favour sons has reduced female population

By Keith Perry, The Telegraph [UK] | 01.15.2014

Sex selection abortions are taking place in some ethnic communities in Britain and the practice is so widespread it has...

Genetic Selection

Cloning comeback

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 01.14.2014

The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation nestles on a wooded hillside in Guro, a district on the southwestern outskirts of Seoul...

Stem Cells

China cloning on an 'industrial scale'

By David Shukman, BBC News | 01.13.2014
You hear the squeals of the pigs long before reaching a set of long buildings set in rolling hills in...
Animal Biotechnologies

The Case for De-Extinction: Why We Should Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth

By Stewart Brand, e360 | 01.13.2014
Sequenceable DNA can be recovered from museum specimens and some fossils of extinct species. That discovery in the 1980s set...
Animal Biotechnologies

The Case Against De-Extinction: It’s a Fascinating but Dumb Idea

By Paul R. Ehrlich, e360 | 01.13.2014
Wouldn’t it be great to have vast herds of mammoths roaming the Canadian tundra, or a thrill to see flocks...
Animal Biotechnologies